There is a lot of talk about sports field lighting control in Australia in 2019. With several new stadiums in Australia using or being upgraded to DMX lighting control, the spotlight is on the sports lighting segment more than ever from a lighting control perspective....

Controlling your lights with Amazon Echo is science fiction come-to life-and now easy for every home owner to achieve, simply and easily at a low cost. The Amazon Echo has 75% of the virtual assistant market share with a deep range of lighting control and other home...

Amazon Alexa smart home lighting control is coming to Australia officially in February 2018 and Diginet Sitara is Amazon Alexa smart home lighting control ready. Amazon Alexa is the virtual digital assistant powering the Amazon Echo range of devices’ amazing...

Electrical Engineers, Engineering Consultants and Lighting Designers are on notice to ensure the lighting control systems they select are secure, to mitigate risk and minimise brand and reputation damage from cyber attacks in 2018. Federal Parliament passed the...

Smart Schedules for Diginet Sitara system provide a level of safety, convenience and luxury which were previously only available with expensive. legacy lighting control systems. Smart Schedules for Diginet Sitara are easy to setup, edit and change yourself right from...

If you’re wondering how and why is Diginet Sitara Different and Why it Matters to home owners, we intend to make it clear in this article. Exactly Why is Diginet Sitara Different is best explained with 3 simple reasons which help home owners understand...

Diginet Sitara Bluetooth Home Lighting Control System is a home lighting control system which uses both new Bluetooth Mesh Network technology and hardwired dimmers, switches and timers, to provide a more cost effective home lighting control system without sacrificing...

Are you wondering How to Fix LED Dimmer Backlight Flickering? Have you installed an LED dimmer (MMDM/RT or MMDM/PB) and have this issue? – Dimmer backlight flickering Are you on site right now and need to let your client know How to Fix LED Dimmer Backlight...

There is a lot of talk about sports field lighting control in Australia in 2019. With several new stadiums in Australia using or being upgraded to DMX lighting control, the spotlight is on the sports lighting segment more than ever from a lighting control perspective....

Controlling your lights with Amazon Echo is science fiction come-to life-and now easy for every home owner to achieve, simply and easily at a low cost. The Amazon Echo has 75% of the virtual assistant market share with a deep range of lighting control and other home...

Amazon Alexa smart home lighting control is coming to Australia officially in February 2018 and Diginet Sitara is Amazon Alexa smart home lighting control ready. Amazon Alexa is the virtual digital assistant powering the Amazon Echo range of devices’ amazing...

Electrical Engineers, Engineering Consultants and Lighting Designers are on notice to ensure the lighting control systems they select are secure, to mitigate risk and minimise brand and reputation damage from cyber attacks in 2018. Federal Parliament passed the...

Smart Schedules for Diginet Sitara system provide a level of safety, convenience and luxury which were previously only available with expensive. legacy lighting control systems. Smart Schedules for Diginet Sitara are easy to setup, edit and change yourself right from...

If you’re wondering how and why is Diginet Sitara Different and Why it Matters to home owners, we intend to make it clear in this article. Exactly Why is Diginet Sitara Different is best explained with 3 simple reasons which help home owners understand...

Diginet Sitara Bluetooth Home Lighting Control System is a home lighting control system which uses both new Bluetooth Mesh Network technology and hardwired dimmers, switches and timers, to provide a more cost effective home lighting control system without sacrificing...

Are you wondering How to Fix LED Dimmer Backlight Flickering? Have you installed an LED dimmer (MMDM/RT or MMDM/PB) and have this issue? – Dimmer backlight flickering Are you on site right now and need to let your client know How to Fix LED Dimmer Backlight...

Did you know that Australian board members and C-level executives believe the top three risks most likely to have an impact on a company’s reputation are: Regulatory Investigations Cyber risk (including data security breaches) Intellectual property and Brand...

Are You Looking for alternatives to C-Bus® and Others? Are looking for alternatives to Clipsal C-Bus® and others? Perhasp you should consider some lighting control solutions from Gerard Lighting depending on whether the alternatives to C-Bus® you seek are for the...

In the world of LED lighting that demonstrates black and white energy savings, controlling energy efficient lighting effectively is more important than ever to both ensure maximum energy savings and create environments that encourage maximum productivity. Often...

The world of lighting control is moving fast so it important for Engineering and Consulting firms to Update DALI lighting control specifications. The Internet of Things (IOT) is on everyone’s lips but is your DALI lighting control specification ready for the...

Having problems with your LED Downlights Flickering? This is How to Fix Your LED Downlights Flickering: STEP 1: Take notice of when they are flickering. If it is always at the same time (at night after 10pm for example) this indicates a supply authority signal called...

Diginet – Your Experts for DALI Lighting Controls DALI IS THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD FOR LIGHTING CONTROLS. All Diginet DALI products are 100% DALI Complaint to IEC62386 with compliance certification available on request. When you purchase a Diginet DALI Product...

2 way dimmers for LED lights is now a reality. Until now, 2 way dimmers for LED lights was not possible. Your electrician could provide an LED dimmer in 1 location, and only an on/off switch in the other location. As a home owner, you would have to choose the...

What is the RAPIX Suite? RAPIX is a Secure Commercial Lighting Control Platform offering IOT Connectivity. The system’s hardware and software is designed in Australia to Save Time, Save Energy and Save Money for commercial buildings applications. It is designed to...

DALI Type 8, also known as DALI 209, is a DALI compatible device (device Type 8) which allows a user to change light colour , colour temperature and intensity to their preference, within the same fixture to achieve tunable white and RGB/W colour changing. DALI Type...

DALI Tunable white, also known as DALI Tuneable White, allows a user to change light colour temperature – including intensity – to their preference, within the same fixture. DALI Tunable white uses a single DALI short address to control 2 outputs on a...

Check out any DALI configuration software or documentation and chances are that the term ‘Direct Arc Power’ will be used at some point. For example, a DALI Short address (single Luminaire) or DALI Group Address (a number of luminaries) can be set to go to a particular...

AS2293 Compliant DALI Monitored Emergency systems provide a simple and cost-effective way to provide AS2293 Compliance by using the international standard for lighting control, DALI. By utilising DALI for Emergency Monitoring everybody saves time and money by using...

The RAPIX Secure Hive Mind heralds a new era of collective intelligence for lighting control. With the RAPIX Secure Hive Mind, Diginet’s Adelaide based engineers have jettison decades of old lighting control system design and obsolete operational practices. This...

Picture this. You have spent the last few weeks or months drawing, designing and fine-tuning your DALI lighting control specification. You include it in your electrical tender documentation and let it to the market. The tender is let, construction begins and then the...

Diginet has launched the new RAPIX Lighting Control System at an event in NSW appropriately held at the Star Room above Sydney’s IMAX Theatre – overlooking the new Barangaroo International Towers Sydney – another project the Gerard Lighting Group were successful...

You have an important presentation today. The meeting room is setup. After a late night, your PowerPoint deck is complete and ready to go. Your audience are seated and settled. Now all you need to do is dim the lights a little so the focus is on you and your...

Whether manufacturing, specifying or commissioning lighting systems in commercial buildings, we should all be mindful of the ‘Ten second lighting control rule’. THE RULE: An employee on entering a normal meeting room which they have never used before, should, in...

You’re designing your lighting system for a new multi storey, multi tenancy commercial office building. You’re completing your design now and the project will be completed and built in about 36 months (3 years). Yes 2019! Your design brief from the client...

The Return of the Rotary dial to lighting controls is a reinvention of a familiar lighting control interface which has all but disappeared in commercial lighting control applications. Now the Rotary dial is a digital encoder and its this digitisation which heralds a...

You may have heard the terms Digital Ceilings or Connected Lighting. You may have thought these were new ideas for best practice lighting control and future lighting systems. But are these new terms for old practices, spruiked as the new future by a few manufacturers?...

Mitigating risk in Lighting Control Systems is top of mind for developers, facility managers and consultants in 2015 and beyond. Projects which are specified today may not be installed for 2-3 (or more) years so the lighting control systems being specified now need to...

The process of Layering DALI lighting Controls in Australian Office Buildings helps both facility owners and tenants decrease energy consumption and increase Indoor Environmental Quality. These layering methods used are also relevant to hospitals, courtrooms, police...

I am often asked why must the DALI communication bus (the DALI Line) be run in double insulated mains wiring? Doing a search through available documentation it is difficult to find hard information to answer this specific question. The DALI AG (Action Group)...

DALI relays can be a life saver on some projects With just about every type of light source – fluro, LED, emergency, LV and even incandescent – having suitable DALI control gear available, why would you ever need to use a DALI Relay? Why use DALI Relays...

What is the difference between DALI Compliant and DALI Compatible products? DALI is a lighting control protocol that is governed/defined by the international standard IEC 62386 series Different control gear types (eg Fluorescent Ballasts, LED Drivers, Emergency...

In 2015 Lighting Controls Security in the IOT (Internet of Things) world is a major concern for many facility managers, building owners and tenants alike. System Integrators and Lighting Control Manufacturers typical push back and attempt to deny responsibility...

In Part 1 we told you about the importance of mixing design and performance, creating a new design paradigm for LED wall dimmers with some innovative Australian design. However, beautiful design and appearance is only half the LED lighting puzzle. A wall dimmer can...

We have previously written about the importance of upgrading your wall dimmers to those optimised for LED dimming. This includes matching the LED and dimmers together to achieve best results. Wall dimmers are also known as: Rotary Dimmers Rotary Dimmer Switch Rotary...

From mid-1990 through to mid-2000 lighting controls took their place as the next trend in lighting and building management. The problem was that not enough value was generated from the investment and as budgets shrunk on large projects, the first specification item to...

Lighting Control Systems and Luminaires as we know them today – as separate disconnected pieces – are dying. Long live the Lighting System. When DALI technology became the standard protocol for digital lighting control in the early part of the 21st...

Reading or watching the marketing materials from many lighting and lighting controls vendors its not uncommon to read about extraordinary percentages of energy savings from lighting controls. There are certainly some very effective and efficient light sources and...

Lighting Controls is much older than 25 years, we know that, but in Australia and other parts of the world some of the most popular digital lighting control systems were being born 25 years ago this year. Happy 25th Birthday Lighting Controls and thanks for your...

Implementing the correct DALI Lighting Control Strategies for Smart Buildings can often mean the difference between an efficient and effective DALI lighting control system or one that fails. These strategies are accumulative and not mutually exclusive. The more...

Today, the lines have blurred between lighting manufacturers and lighting control manufacturers. Lighting Control Systems now represent cohesive ecosystems of connected parts – drivers, ballasts, controllers – which have been tested to comply with International...

RAPIX DALI Emergency is a sophisticated system that ticks all the boxes for AS2293 (Emergency Escape Lighting and Exit Signs for Buildings) compliance. In true Diginet fashion we have made simple to install, configure and use. It doesn’t have to be complicated and its...

AS 2293 (Emergency Escape Lighting and Exit Signs for Buildings) requires you to regularly test, record and maintain all the EM lights in the building(s) that you are responsible for. What is the Current Situation? A recent survey* in the USA found that: EM luminaires...

There are millions of wall dimmers installed in Australian homes today. The fact is that these wall dimmers were never made for dimming LED lights and the rapid changeover to LED lights in homes represents a significant issue for home owners and electricians alike....

There is much discussion regarding what is the standard communication protocol for lighting control in commercial buildings. Ask any manufacturer of luminaires for commercial buildings what control technology is used at a luminaire level, and they will say...

So you’ve run all the Mains and the DALI bus wiring to all the DALI fitting on a DALI Line what should your check list be before you start the commissioning process? Here is a 10 point DALI check list that will make every DALI installation faster and more...